Nottingham Road Methodist Church

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MANSFIELD

SK5360 NOTTINGHAM ROAD 924-1/7/91 (East side) Nottingham Road Methodist Church

GV II

Methodist church. 1913. Probably by Brewill & Baily. Rock-faced ashlar and yellow brick, with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped Westmorland slate roofs. Free Gothic style. Apsidal east end with vestries and meeting rooms, aisleless nave with double transepts, south-west tower with spire. EXTERIOR: canted apse has central 3-light pointed-arch window with panel tracery, and to south a single window. Meeting room, placed crosswise at the east end, has hipped north end with ridge stack. Coped south gable with finial and square flanking buttresses with flat caps, and 3-light pointed arch window with panel tracery. East side has four 3-light leaded casements and a door with sidelights, all with segmental heads. Vestry, to south of apse, has lintel band, string course and blocking course, and hipped roof. Large canted bay window to left, with a 4-light mullioned window flanked by single lights. To right, a door with overlight, flanked to left by a small window. Nave has buttresses on each side, and 3 traceried 2-light pointed-arch windows. West end has heavy shouldered coped gable with a Perpendicular-style 3-light pointed-arch window, with mullions in the form of buttresses, in a deep splayed reveal with hoodmould and stops. Below, projecting entrance bay with gabled flanking buttresses topped with square pedestals with crenellated moulded copings. Segmental pointed arch with panelled double doors and traceried fanlight, under a concave swept gable. Beyond, on either side, a single ogee lancet with hoodmould. To north, a small square tower with a single blind lancet on each side at the top. The corners are carried up to form square pinnacles with moulded flat caps. At the north-west corner, a stair enclosure with shouldered coped gable, string course and coped parapet. 2 single lancets with hoodmoulds to west and north. North gable has, above, a tall single lancet. South transept has coped gables and 3 gabled buttresses topped with square pinnacles. Two 3-light pointed arch windows with panel tracery. Plainer north transept has similar windows. Square south-west tower, 3 stages, has gabled diagonal buttresses topped with flat-topped square pinnacles, string course and coped parapet, with a central lancet on each side under a tiny gable. Ground stage has to west a segmental-pointed doorway with hoodmould and impost band and panelled double door with traceried overlight. Above it, 2 small lancets with impost band. To south, a canted projection with hipped roof and moulded cornice. 3-light mullioned window flanked by single lights. Second stage has a narrow single lancet on 3 sides. Bell stage has on each side a splayed recess with moulded segmental pointed head, with 2 single-lancet louvred bell openings divided by a stepped buttress. Setback plain octagonal spire with ball finial. INTERIOR. chancel has moulded arch with hoodmould and corbels, and round shafts. On either side, a tall pointed opening, the left with organ pipes, the right with a door. Apse has wooden ribs. To east, triple lancet with stained glass, 1913, possibly by Morris & Co. To north, 2 pointed arches with organ pipes. To south, blank arch and window with patterned stained glass. Nave has arch braced roof with collar and wall shafts on corbels. Iron tie rods with tracery. West end has traceried wooden gallery with rounded ends, and below it, a glazed wooden screen with a glazed double door at each side. Patterned stained glass throughout. Transepts have moulded arches with a round granite central pier. North transept has a doorway to east. INTERIOR: entrance hall has stained-glass screens and doors. Tower has concrete winder stairs with iron stick balusters. Meeting room has arch braced roof. FITTINGS: traceried panelled octagonal wooden pulpit and stair, traceried reading desk, choir stalls and lectern, all mid C20. Panelled curved benches with shaped ends. MEMORIALS include 3 resited marble tablets, C19. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E: Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 170).

Listing NGR: SK5395060696

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Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 170

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